Senior Project Manager (Business Continuity)

Senior Project Manager - Business Continuity &amp; Technology Resilience<br />Contract / Fixed Term Opportunity<br />Our client, a highly respected professional services organisation, is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead a complex Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Technology Resilience programme. The role will coordinate executive stakeholders, technology and operational teams, risk and compliance functions, and third-party suppliers to deliver stronger organisational resilience and operational continuity.<br />Key Responsibilities:<br />Programme Leadership

• Lead the delivery of a complex, multi-workstream Business Continuity and Technology Resilience programme, owning integrated plans, roadmaps, milestones, budgets, dependencies and schedules.
• Provide strategic and hands-on leadership, driving prioritisation, decisions and escalation while removing blockers across stakeholder groups.<br />Workstream Delivery<br />Oversee coordinated delivery across business continuity, manual workarounds for critical services, technology resilience and disaster recovery, alternative communications and productivity solutions, cross-functional recovery processes, third-party dependencies, governance, assurance and operational readiness.<br />Stakeholder Management
• Build effective relationships with executive stakeholders, technology leaders, operational teams, risk functions and external suppliers.
• Facilitate decision-making and remove delivery obstacles.
• Provide clear and concise reporting on programme progress, risks, dependencies and key decisions.
• Communicate effectively at all levels, from executive steering committees to delivery teams.<br />Governance, Risk &amp; Control<br />Establish robust governance, assurance and reporting, maintaining effective RAID controls across scope, schedule, costs, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and benefits.<br />Resource &amp; Supplier Management
• Coordinate internal and external resources across multiple workstreams.
• Manage third-party suppliers against agreed deliverables, service levels and contractual commitments.
• Ensure accountability, effective handoffs and strong collaboration across delivery teams.
• Validate supplier outputs and support successful testing, acceptance and implementation activities.<br />Financial &amp; Performance Management
• Manage programme budgets, forecasts and actual expenditure.
• Monitor cost, schedule and delivery performance, highlighting material variances and associated recovery actions.
• Support transparent reporting of programme performance to senior stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, predictability and delivery outcomes.<br />Operational Readiness &amp; Change<br />Ensure resilience solutions are tested, accepted and transitioned into operational use, managing business change impacts so continuity processes and capabilities are embedded across the organisation and support a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.<br />Experience Required<br />Applicants should have significant experience delivering complex technology, resilience or transformation programmes in large organisations, with strong capability across governance, scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality and executive stakeholder management.
• Demonstrable experience operating within multi-vendor and supplier-based delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery (DR), Operational Resilience and Technology Resilience frameworks.
• Experience leading business and technology change initiatives concurrently.
• Experience applying agile, hybrid and traditional delivery methodologies according to programme needs.
• Ability to operate confidently in fast-paced and challenging delivery environments.
• Experience within regulated or professional services environments, ideally leading large-scale business continuity, disaster recovery or operational resilience programmes and transitioning resilience solutions into operations.<br />Applicants must live within a commutable distance of central London and be available to start within the next 2-3 weeks. Must already hold the right to work in the UK, as our client is unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time